V A Chinese Ceramics

Nowhere in the world has pottery assumed such importance as in china and the influence of chinese porcelain on later european pottery has been profound.

V a chinese ceramics. In november 2010 a chinese vase unearthed in a suburba. Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of chinese art and ceramics globally. Masterpieces from the v a collection. The collections are particularly strong in international contemporary studio ceramics european porcelain and pottery from 1500 onwards and ceramics from china japan and the middle east.

Porcelain of the qing dynasty. The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware. Masterpieces from the v a collection. Chinese ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles to hand built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns to the sophisticated chinese porcelain wares made for.

Large numbers of chinese ceramics are offered around the world at reputable auction houses which unlike museums allow potential buyers to handle them so make the most of. The v a acquired its first group of chinese objects in 1852 and today the collection amounts to approximately 18 000 objects with examples from all branches of chinese art including ceramics jade metalwork lacquer textiles furniture sculpture ivory bamboo rhinoceros horn glass paintings manuscripts and prints. Earthenware stoneware and porcelain particularly those made in china. Chinese potters have copied chinese ceramics for hundreds of years both out of reverence for an earlier period and to fool buyers so beware.

Kerr rose wood nigel ceramic technology in science and civilisation in china vol 5 part 12. V a publication london 1986. Kerr rose song dynasty ceramics. Chinese pottery objects made of clay and hardened by heat.

There are two primary categories of chinese ceramics low temperature fired pottery or táo 陶 about 950 1200 and high temperature fired porcelain or cí 瓷 about 1250 1400. There is no quicker way to learn than to handle as many pieces as possible. Highlights include the collections of italian renaissance maiolica chinese porcelain dutch delft british and european porcelain 19th century art pottery.